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Your wing, tail, or body is not connected properly. DATCOM requires the body to extend past the wing attachment. Fix: Ensure the X coordinates in your BODY group include the XWP value inside the body’s nose-tail range.

A sweep angle of exactly 0.0 with a taper ratio of 1.0 can create a divide-by-zero in some old versions. Fix: Use SWEEP=0.0001 instead of 0.0 for straight wings. datcom tutorial

If you set DAMP=1 , look for:

Open the fort.16 file. It is overwhelming at first. Focus on these three tables: Your wing, tail, or body is not connected properly

Tells DATCOM which analysis modules to run. datcom tutorial